Audiobook review: Get some "cul-cha"
Just in time for holiday cocktail party chatter, we have The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive your mind, complete your education and converse confidently with the culturati.
David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim have produced this follow-up to their best-sellers, The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional American History.
The authors focus on Western Culture, covering artists, works, icons and consumer products...everything from the Slinky to War and Peace. Dividing their topics in to 3- to 5-minute segments, one for each day of the week, 52 weeks, these guys cover a lot of ground.
Among the topics are Mozart, Freud, Cole Porter, the Beatles, Einstein, and flag-pole sitting! The only problem with listening to this book is when they talk about paintings or sculture. You wish you could see the picture.
This is the perfect set of CDs for the driver with a short commute, or the one who drives the sports carpool.
And if the current economic tumult has you unwilling to listen to NPR, talk shows or radio news, this is the perfect antidote. And you'll be suprised at how much you don't know, or how much you've got wrong.
While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, 
